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References
- ↑ Johann Natterer's Linguistic Heritage.
- 1 2 Johann Natterer and the Amazonian languages.
- ↑ Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho De Valhery. 2016. Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas . Ph.D. dissertation, University of Brasília.
- ↑ Alem do Brazil - Johann Natterer e as coleções etnográficas da expedição austríaca de 1817 a 1835 ao Brasil.
- ↑ The Ethnographic Collection of Johann Natterer.